Monday, 7 December 2009

Asus UL80Vt and UL30Vt Linux: nvidia switch on/off

If you've got a Asus UL80Vt or UL30Vt and you have tried to use Linux on it, you may have noticed that the BIOS won't allow to switch on/off the nvidia card in the hybrid graphics setup. To help improve the Linux hybrid graphics support for this laptop, please attach your DSDT information to this Launchpad bug report specifying your laptop model:

Nvidia still not working after I tried a few suggestions like BusID and displaydevice in xorg.conf. Read in UL50 forum that some BIOS versions allows preboot GPU selection but its not available in UL80VT. I think ASUS should include this feature in their BIOS.

if anyone ends up here with no answer. you can set the bios option of the sata mode to compatability. this will disable your intel gfx. but also reduce HD IO performance. but you'll get the nvidia gfx to work with the hardware drivers